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Posts published in September 2017

An Isolated Incident

During the evening of August 14th a twenty year old woman named Morgan Franklin, from Big Bear, CA, appeared at the emergency room (ER) of…

Headhunters Coming To Fort Bragg (Really)

I barely got to enjoy the rough dismissal of Fort Bragg city manager Linda Ruffing from her three grand a week job when I learned…

Back In The DDR

Organists have long been present at, indeed participants in, great political events:  the 759 Byzantine delegation from Constantinople to the French court of Pippin the…

A Lone Pine View

Worth more than any blinking traffic light, it guided folks for years. It told them where they were and how to get to where they…

Duets

Funny how things will stick in one's memory. The bit on Sacco and Vanzetti in a recent AVA column reminded me of other infamous duos…

Off the Record (Sep. 6, 2017)

THE WAY WE LIVE NOW. Fred Gardner writes: Justin B., 19, has always been a bicycle person. He works at a bike store in Salem,…

Ah, Youth!

A jury convicted Justin Phillips last week of running down Donald Wagner. Phillips was drag racing his cousin, Luke Buzzard last, December 8th when he…

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